Why are the photos taken by Huawei P30Pro yellow?

At this year's Huawei P30 series conference, Yu Chengdong highly praised this mobile phone, which can rewrite the rules of photography. Yu Chengdong dared to say this because Huawei P30Pro adopted a brand-new RYYB color gamut grouping, which greatly improved the low light effect. This filter array has a red-yellow-yellow-blue matrix. Compared with the traditional RGGB color filter array, green pixels are replaced by yellow pixels, which can allow the sensor to absorb more light from this area. Even so, foreign media phonearena compared Huawei P30Pro with other mobile phones, and pointed out the shortcomings of RYYB color filter.

From the comparison of Huawei P30Pro and P30 lens sensor color filter arrays, it can be seen that replacing green pixels with yellow pixels can indeed capture more light sources, but it is worse in color difference control and color expression.

Comparing Samsung S 10+, iPhoneXSMax, Huawei P20Pro, Mate20Pro and P30Pro, we can see that the photos taken by Huawei P30Pro are all yellow. Although the photos taken by iPhoneXSMax will be more or less yellow, at least the sky looks blue.

The photos taken by Huawei P30Pro make us feel that even if it is cloudy, the effect is like putting a yellow glass bottle in front of the camera. However, Huawei relies on the powerful 7 nm process processor Kirin 980 and image algorithm to restore the real scene effect as much as possible, but it is still not enough to overcome the shortcomings brought by using yellow pixels in the sensor, that is, there will be inaccurate white balance and insufficient saturation.

However, from the comparison of photos taken in low light environment, Huawei P30 sensor can capture more light than Huawei Mate20Pro, and seldom see warm colors. Of course, from the overall photography point of view, whether it is day shooting or night shooting, Huawei P30Pro is still extremely powerful, and the photos taken are clearer and more detailed. If you really take a yellow photo, this shortcoming depends on whether the user can accept it.